Questionable Advice

Maxims, Advice & Cautions in all matters; or, Guidance for the Confused Masses

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~ Don'ts for Bachelors and Old Maids by Minna Thomas Antrim, 1908

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~ Mrs. Owen’s Cook Book and Useful Household Hints, by F.E. Owens, 1903

Why March? Mrs. Owen's doesn't say, so we'll just have to take her word for it

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~ Advice to Young Men and (Incidentally) to Young Women, in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life, by William Cobbett, 1829

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Shropshire News (Wellington, Shropshire) - Thursday 06 August 1868

Source: British Newspaper Archive

Love that both jobs were included, being a tinman is just as important as being a wizard. But being a wizard is better.

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~ The San Jose News, December 6, 1928

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~ A Manual of Etiquette with Hints on Politeness and Good Breeding, by Daisy Eyebright, 1852

I say, what peculiar phraseology you have

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~ Best Foods Mayonnaise, 1966

Stressed out about the news? Try carving baskets out of cabbage. Hacking at things with a knife can be satisfying

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~ Spork, 1941 (via University of Saskatchewan)

The Meat of Many Uses!

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~ Success in Letter Writing, by Sherwin Cody, 1913

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1915 Suffrage poster. From Women's History Uncovered, FB.

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~ When You Marry, by Evelyn Millis Duvall and Reuben Hill, 1953

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~ Etiquette, Jr., by Mary Elizabeth Clark and Margery Closey Quigley, 1965

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~ The Mentor: A Little Book for the Guidance of Such Men and Boys as would Appear to Advantage in the Society of Persons of the Better Sort, by Alfred Ayres, 1884

Vests are more complicated than you think: wearing the wrong one can make you look like a grave robber.

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~ The Winton Motor Carriage Co., 1898

It's made with Ball Bearings and goes from 3 to 20 mph, people. What else do you need to know?

Pro-horse propaganda

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Eskimo Pie, 1927

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~ The Home and Farm Manual; A New and Complete Pictorial Cyclopedia of Farm, Garden, Household, Architectural, Legal, Medical and Social Information, by Hon. Jonathan Periam, 1884

You can't convince me that professional clowns are a thing that should exist, buffoonery or not

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TW: WWI-era vintage nationalism

~ Foster's Lager, 1915

WWI era Foster's Lager ad: "no connection with Germans - either naturalized or unnaturalized"